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| Thread ID: 124085 | 2012-04-05 08:48:00 | More than 600,000 Macs infected with Flashback botnet | Iantech (16386) | PC World Chat |
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| 1268415 | 2012-04-06 06:26:00 | What is not mentioned is that it was required of the person to allow this program to be installed with admin rights on a admin account. Also if the mac was running AV, the virus self deleted. A condom is only useful if you don't poke holes in it | plod (107) | ||
| 1268416 | 2012-04-06 11:10:00 | The more popular macs get the more attention they will get from the people who make malware, simple. I think there IMO is a flaw in this argument. People have said the same thing about Linux. However - the majority of web servers are probably running Linux - wouldn't it be more fun and more spectacular to attack www servers than users' home PCs? But it hasn't happened..... Not all OSs are on an even security footing! I have been using Linux since 1998 and do not run a virus scanner (except for maybe twice temporarily installing one to see nothing present). |
johnd (85) | ||
| 1268417 | 2012-04-07 09:20:00 | Actually it has happened even on linux. Vulnerabilities over the years both in apache as well as popular software suites such as Wordpress / Joomla. End of the day, as long as software is written by humans, there will be bugs and flaws and vulerabilities. Some are inherently more secure than others, but nothings perfect... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1268418 | 2012-04-07 09:23:00 | Agreed - but I don't ever remember hearing of a "major" event that actually had a serious effect? | johnd (85) | ||
| 1268419 | 2012-04-07 11:54:00 | Agreed - but I don't ever remember hearing of a "major" event that actually had a serious effect? and bingo, You just demolish your own point. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1268420 | 2012-04-08 07:59:00 | Maybe I was not clear in the first place - I am not aware of demolishing any point. There are probably millions of Linux servers out there and while there are some threats, I am unaware of any major event taking them out? The point was made that when a platform becomes popular, threats will become more common. It does not seem to have happened. | johnd (85) | ||
| 1268421 | 2012-04-08 10:35:00 | Maybe I was not clear in the first place - I am not aware of demolishing any point. There are probably millions of Linux servers out there and while there are some threats, I am unaware of any major event taking them out? The point was made that when a platform becomes popular, threats will become more common. It does not seem to have happened. If you were a malware writer who would be more likely to target, the average user who simply turns their computer on and uses it, or a server which has been carefully protected from threats by the technicians? ;) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1268422 | 2012-04-08 10:45:00 | Maybe I was not clear in the first place - I am not aware of demolishing any point. There are probably millions of Linux servers out there and while there are some threats, I am unaware of any major event taking them out? The point was made that when a platform becomes popular, threats will become more common. It does not seem to have happened.So I presume all these websites that get taken down are the ones not run on Linux? | plod (107) | ||
| 1268423 | 2012-04-08 11:49:00 | If you were a malware writer who would be more likely to target, the average user who simply turns their computer on and uses it, or a server which has been carefully protected from threats by the technicians? ;) Blogs often get hacked as they are a prime place to distribute malware via drive-by download. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1268424 | 2012-04-27 01:11:00 | Flashback was already well known in Feb but Apple did nothing till April ? And only for Snow Leopard and Lion, so older Macs are still vulnerable. Intego finds new, insidious strain of Mac Flashback Trojan horse by Lex Friedman, Macworld.com Feb 24, 2012 5:20 am www.macworld.com _trojan_horse.html "Note, however, that if you’re still running Snow Leopard and your Java installation isn’t current, a maliciously-coded webpage could cause the malware to install without further intervention on your part, depending on your browser’s security settings." More variants of it are appearing ... New Flashback variant silently infects Macs By Emil Protalinski | April 23, 2012, 11:39am PDT www.zdnet.com Kaspersky: Apple '10 years behind Microsoft in terms of security' www.zdnet.com 1 in 5 Macs has malware on it. Does yours? nakedsecurity.sophos.com www.techspot.com "Let's look at the stats again, revealed by this study. 20% of Macs tested were found to be carrying Windows malware One in 36 Macs tested was found to be infected by Mac OS X malware" |
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